Dreams Quote by Bonnie Hammer

“My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.”

— Carrie Butler

“In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which…

— Ella Berthoud

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting…

— Fred Saberhagen

“One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.”

— Carrie Butler

“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of…

— Neil Gaiman

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

— Ken Liu

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

— Margaret Atwood

“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are…

— Orson Scott Card

“Quarantine is real s.f. It is speculative fiction whose adventures of the mind are based in our contemporary understanding of what the universe is…

— Karen Burnham

“All because I fell in love with a madman.”

— Carrie Butler

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss